Marinella Petrocchi

Researcher at the Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) of the National Research Council of Italy, working on security and trustworthiness in online social networks, with particular focus on bot and spam detection mechanisms.

Sources in this wiki

• DNA-Inspired Online Behavioral Modeling and Its Application to Spambot Detection
• The Paradigm-Shift of Social Spambots: Evidence, Theories, and Tools for the Arms Race
• Better Safe Than Sorry: an Adversarial Approach to improve Social Bot Detection

Topics

• Social spambots, Bot detection

Notes

Part of the IIT team investigating the evolution of spambot design and detection evasion techniques.